Coal Mining Fatalities
This database contains 2497 known Nova Scotia coal mining fatalities. Names, dates, places, mines, and causes of death have been painstakingly compiled. Despite this, it is by no means a complete list. Fatalities occurred before records were kept; descriptions of incidents and those involved were lost along with coal company records. Official recording of multiple deaths may have missed some names; in some cases, names are misspelled. However, this is likely the most complete list that exists. Please contact us if you know names to add.
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| Surname | Given Name(s) | Year | County |
Mine |
Cause |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| McNeil | Henry | 1876 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | cause not recorded |
| May | George | 1887 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Fatally hurt |
| Lowther | William | 1900 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Leg broken in fall of stone at working face |
| Gillespie | David | 1916 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Struck by cage |
| Jones | Hezekiah | 1922 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Fall of stone and coal from face |
| Brown | George D. | 1926 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Fall of stone |
| Carter | Ralston | 1935 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Struck by full car on back slope |
| Weatherbee | Lorne A. | 1942 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Struck by trip |
| Allen | Fidele | 1958 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Terrific, devastating bump |
| Legere | Alfred | 1958 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Terrific, devastating bump |
| McLeod | Frank | 1958 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Terrific, devastating bump |
| Ross | Robert | 1958 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Terrific, devastating bump |
| Ferguson | David | 1877 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Run over by counter balance |
| Cherrie | William | 1905 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | killed at the 2400-foot level |
| Krantz | Joseph | 1910 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Fall of stone |
| Miller | Penman | 1926 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Fall of stone |
| Fowler | Orrin L. | 1935 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Fall of coal at 7100-foot level |
| White | Alfred A. | 1958 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Bump on March 18 |
| Fraser | Harold | 1958 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Terrific, devastating bump |
| Livingstone | Gilbert | 1958 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Terrific, devastating bump |
| McNutt | Harold | 1958 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Terrific, devastating bump |
| Ross | Philip | 1958 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Terrific, devastating bump |
| Hannah | Joseph | 1905 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Killed instantly by being run over by hopper |
| Piggot | Richard | 1917 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Fall of coal |
| Bourgisk | Charles | 1923 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Bump caused fall of stone in room/bord; 1 of 2 killed |
| Boutilier | Gerald L. | 1955 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Killed on surface |
| Tabor | Hollis | 1958 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Terrific, devastating bump |
| Gerhardt | Joseph | 1958 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Terrific, devastating bump |
| Maddison | John | 1958 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Terrific, devastating bump |
| Miller | Bernard | 1958 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Terrific, devastating bump |
| Ross | St. Clair | 1958 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Terrific, devastating bump |
| Furlong | Frank | 1901 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Scalded with steam |
| Scott | John W. | 1905 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Killed by trip on turnout |
| Stevenson | William | 1917 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Struck by prop, died 3 days later |
| Davidonkow | Pichon | 1923 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Bump caused fall of stone in room/bord |
| Lutes | Morton M. or Norton | 1937 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Trapper, Struck by trip at 8300-ft trap door |
| Fowler | Richard | 1943 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Crushed while working on screens |
| Leggett | Herbert | 1948 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Fall of stone; 1 of 2 killed |
| McSephney | William | 1955 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Killed by haulage |
| Aylward | Ralph | 1958 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Terrific, devastating bump |
| Gillis | Gus | 1958 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Terrific, devastating bump |
| Marshall | Thomas | 1958 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Terrific, devastating bump |
| Mooring | Carl | 1958 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Terrific, devastating bump |
| Smith | William | 1958 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Terrific, devastating bump |
| Bell | Thomas | 1953 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2, #1 seam | Killed by haulage |
| Nicholson | Thomas N. | 1953 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2, #1 seam | Killed by haulage |
| Welch | Clarence | 1953 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2, #1 seam | Killed by haulage |
| Henderson | William | 1905 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 3 | Fall of coal |
| Bulmer | Walter | 1911 or 1912 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 3 | Struck by ginney (aka jinney or jig) or prop |
| MacKinnon | Alex | 1905 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 3 | Bump |